{"id":5454,"date":"2025-12-26T07:10:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T07:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/?p=5454"},"modified":"2025-12-26T07:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T07:12:05","slug":"mirwaiz-umar-farooq-drops-hurriyat-chairman-title-from-x-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/mirwaiz-umar-farooq-drops-hurriyat-chairman-title-from-x-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirwaiz Umar Farooq drops Hurriyat chairman title from X profile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Srinagar:&nbsp;<\/strong>In a significant development, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, the chief cleric of Kashmir, quietly removed the title \u201cChairman, All Parties Hurriyat Conference\u201d from his verified X (formerly Twitter) account on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The removal of the title from Mirwaiz Umar Farooq\u2019s X bio was revealed through social media chatter last evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a post shared on Friday morning, Mirwaiz, as per news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), revealed that he had been facing pressure from authorities to make changes to his social media profile, as all constituent factions of the Hurriyat Conference, including the Awami Action Committee (AAC) that he heads, have been banned under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"868\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_20251226_1240212093263751838788035-868x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_20251226_1240212093263751838788035-868x1024.jpg 868w, https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_20251226_1240212093263751838788035-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_20251226_1240212093263751838788035-768x906.jpg 768w, https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_20251226_1240212093263751838788035.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screen shot of X Profile of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor some time now, I was being pressed by the authorities to make changes to my X (formerly Twitter) handle as Hurriyat chairman, since all constituent factions of the Hurriyat Conference, including the Awami Action Committee that I head, have been banned under the UAPA, making Hurriyat a banned organisation. Failing which, they threatened to take down my handle,\u201d the tweet reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the X platform remains among the very few means available to him to reach out to his people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt a time when public space and avenues of communication stand severely restricted, this platform remains among the very few means available to me to reach out to my people and share my views on our issues with them and with the outside world. Under such circumstances, it was a Hobson\u2019s choice I was left to make,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mirwaiz\u2019s move reflects the decline in the influence of separatists in Kashmir, who were once calling the shots and dictating politics in the region\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar:&nbsp;In a significant development, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, the chief cleric of Kashmir, quietly removed the title \u201cChairman, All Parties Hurriyat Conference\u201d from his verified X (formerly Twitter) account on Thursday evening. The removal of the title from Mirwaiz Umar Farooq\u2019s X bio was revealed through social media chatter last evening. In a post shared on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jammu-kashmir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5455,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454\/revisions\/5455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}